Kris Gopalakrishnan Quotes

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'

Being women behind a massively growing business is not an easy task, and the journey to find the right investors and to secure true partners has proven that.

I started to invest in very-early-stage companies where, even though I wasn't the founder, I could help shape the early strategy and culture.

It is not often that one of the world's best entrepreneurs rings you up and says 'I've got this business we are about to float off as an independent company and we'd like you to be chief executive.'

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

Techstars has done a great job accelerating and providing venture capital to the most promising companies to make the biggest long-term economic impact.

I'm working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people launching new businesses. It's fun. It's what I've always liked to do and loved doing it in my years at NASCAR when we were growing NASCAR, building different lines of business and intellectual properties.

Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app for college students or a home medical device for senior citizens; there are other multibillion noncompetitive corporations that are spending millions of dollars trying to market their goods and services to your same audience.

Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.

If you look at all the investments made during 'Dragons' Den,' the ratio of those that make it to those that don't is actually extremely high.

In 'That Will Never Work,' I give readers a clear-eyed insider's look into how one of the least likely startups grew into one of the world's most successful companies.

Can a label group by itself scale to make a sensible business? I don't think so.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

I don't really care about capitalizing on momentum.

There are a lot more companies with a lot younger people. It is just like 23-year-olds are starting companies, and they are scaling really quickly.

You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.

As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the business plans coming out of incubators tend to be vetted and more thoroughly validated. The incubator's input into your business plan will make you look far more polished and experienced - even if you have never run a business before.

Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

I concluded that I know how to start and grow software companies. The worthwhile thing I could do was create livelihoods for people.

Sometimes, the startup game works in your favor just because you got in at the right time and right environment. Other times, you're a little too late entering an already crowded space. But startups with strong fundamentals withstand external conditions and come out ahead in good or bad times.

Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well.

I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.

A strong sense of purpose drives businesses to take the long view and invest for growth.